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Second question for anyone still reading. What beer styles would you use the maryanka or Dr Rudi hops for?

Now this I can get onboard with

I'm planning an AG wheat beer for this week. I'm reluctant to purchase anything as I have plenty of out of date stuff. So...... Bramling cross 6% alpha whole cones, good idea or bad? Only other choices are maryanka or Dr Rudi What hop schedule/timings would anyone recommend?

100g will hardly do anything. It will be fine 👍

It was stuck at 1.007 so I've just bottled it. Need the big FV for the next brew. I've put the bottles in spare buckets with a cushion over them just incase 😜 Miscalculated filling bottles and only ended up with a 3/4 full pressure barrel. Oh well. Guess I'll drink that first.

I've just spent the last hour reading up. It's a section I must have always glanced over. Now I'm looking at darkfarm kegs 😂 You can buy them on Wish apparently too. Just unbranded. I'll take some more readings in the morning see if it's dropped much. Thanks for the help

So can I spund an ale? I'm guessing the FG won't drop too much further. Its currently around 1.010 Though with the heating on now it's started to bubble again quite a bit.

What my thinking is, if I'm adding sugar to the pressure barrel then that would be a few points on the hydrometer/refractometer. So why not just let it finish off fermenting IN in the barrel? Anyone do this?

Plastic pressure barrel I should say.

It's a 10 litre plastic keg with the option to inject C02 into the top. I'm also wondering if the high sugar content was too much for the out of date yeast

Hey all. Checked this today. Its only down to 6.5/7% on the refractometer. The heating has been on as it was going quite slow last week and it's kicked all the trub back up. Question. At what point would be OK to pop some in the mini keg? Save adding sugar to the keg I could just leave it to...

Welcome to the forum. I'm the same as you, had a few years off. I also, like you started on kits then went to AG. It really isn't that hard once you have your own system worked out. I havent brewed for 3 years maybe, got the kit out, remembered it like riding a bike and got stuck in. All my...

About 150! 😂 Way too much, but needed using up, has been in the bag for a long time so doubt it's 12.6% alpha acid now still it did taste very bitter. Maybe some dry hopping will mask it.

Not far from longbridge, yourself?

Also an AvE fan I see

Brief intro Used to brew loads, then work changed, twice, got married, now have a 3 month old. Have loads of brew gear that has been moved from one room to another. Now man cub has his own room, I've been "asked" to do something with it. Dragged it out and looked at what we still have. Some...

23 litres of out of date grains chucked in a mash tun. Total 20466

My mate gave me a large parsnip that was growing rouge in his allotment. Chopped it up, boiled with a lemon, around 500g sugar and a cup of cold tea. I can only find half a pack of mangrove jacks mead yeast. So that will have to do. Haven't brewed for a few years, so all my stock is way out...

Hey all. Some might remember me. I was on here quite a bit years back, then changed jobs, got married etc. Now we've got a 3 month old. Tidying up ready for the new addition I got all my brew gear out and sorted through. Plenty of old grain. I've done two all grain brews, one recently as...

I cycle everyday. Thankfully this is the closest I've come. I've thought about a camera but I'd be downloading and uploading footage to West Midlands police all night every night as I would capture illegal driving constantly.